Harmony (2): Palettes
Learn how to use the Palette to navigate keys, build chord progressions and explore the space of harmony with your own palette layouts.
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Harmony
Harmony (1): Progressions
Creative tools for harmony are a major strength of Synfire. Learn how to build and edit chord progressions and collect them in libraries.
Figure: Melodies vs. Chords
Learn which symbols to use for melodies and chords and how to control their behavior.
Pacing of Progressions
How the timing of phrases and progressions interact with each other.
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Progression Standards (Multiple Progressons in File)
This is a progression document with various progressions of many Jazz Standards. You'll find the progressions listed by song names on the Section menu. While most of this stuff seems old fashioned (...)
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Songwriting & Composition Resources
Random links to songwriting and composition resources on the net. Feel free to add your own links that you come across.
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Harmonize a Melody
Learn how to find chords matching a given melody. This way you can make an entire Synfire arrangement follow a vocal recording or other pre-composed melody.
Live Chord Detection
Build chord progressions from pressing keys on your keyboard. Synfire estimates the most likely chord in a sequence of chords.
Alt Progression Presets
Here is a Progression Preset which consists of ten progressions. Many are 16 bars long with fairly fast chord changes. Download this and place in Mac HD/Library/Application Support/SynfirePro/Config/Progressions. It will then show (...)
Effectively Using Colorings
Learn how to use the various coloring schemes to find great chord changes and to understand relationships between chords.
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